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USB boot problems

Tried installing to an 8 gig san disk cruzer USb thumb drive using the unetbooting method and the grub-install method as indicated by the wiki. With both installs, when i attempt to boot into the usb key, i get dropped into a busybox shell and i notice an error "Alert! does not exist. Dropping to a shell". It does not say what does not exist and im stuck here. Anyone encountered this before?

Re: USB boot problems

Well i was able to boot BT4 and BT4-r1 from USB key with no problems, using my acer aspire one netbook. However, I had this issue with BT4-r2, but couldn't find a solution. Now its happening again with BT5

Re: USB boot problems

Originally Posted by aerokid240

Tried installing to an 8 gig san disk cruzer USb thumb drive using the unetbooting method and the grub-install method as indicated by the wiki. With both installs, when i attempt to boot into the usb key, i get dropped into a busybox shell and i notice an error "Alert! does not exist. Dropping to a shell". It does not say what does not exist and im stuck here. Anyone encountered this before?

I had the same problem using UNetbootin and .iso downloaded via torrent. However, when I downloaded .iso via direct link it worked fine.